University of milan
- Main info
Unimi educational and research dairy farm, dep. agriculture and environmental sciences
Landriano, milan- italy
- General info
Institute: University of milan
Institution type: Public
Funding: European union next-generationeu
Type of Facility: Dairy cattle barn, mobile experimental platform for grazing dairy cattle
Type of housing: Free-stall barn with cubicles, Outdoor grazing
External events: Partly
- Livestock info
Livestock type: Dairy cattle
Number of livestock: 120 adult cows (mainly italian holstein) plus 100 replacement animals
- Resources & Technologies
2 automatic milking systems (de laval), 2 cell counters (occ-de laval), 2 milk progesterone analizers (de laval), 2 3_d cameras for automated body condition score (delaval), 10 rumiwatch for feeding behavior
130 moomonitor activity sensors, 1 portable nir analizer for feeds (aurora nir grainit)
Automatic calf milk feeder with automatic half weighing scale and 2 automatic concentrate feeder for calves, 1 grass mass meter (grasshopper)
Climate monitoring (10 hobo), 25 customized collars equipped with accelerometers and gps
Videocameras for calves monitoring, 1 outdoor meteo station (temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction)
- Infrastructures
20 hobo pendant (3d accelerometers)
4 milk flow meters (lactocorder)